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Nancy Drew

ORIGINALLY created in 1930, the Nancy Drew teenage sleuth books have sold more than 200 million copies. Read

The Last Legion

THE latest spin on the Excalibur/Arthurian legend details the fall of the great Roman empire. Read

Rendition

THIS meaningless title refers to the little-known US policy of: 'extraordinary rendition - abducting foreign nationals deemed a threat to national security for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons'. Read

Stardust

POWERED by a Pirates of the Caribbean-style score - but without the ludicrous running time - this is a family-friendly fairy-tale. Read

Michael Clayton

IF The Bourne Ultimatum is the action thriller of the year, here's the cerebral equivalent. Read

Kenny

WOULD Crocodile Dundee have been such a worldwide smash 21 years ago without the Australian accent - and the fact that star Paul Hogan co-wrote the script? Read

War

WHAT do you get if you cross Jason Statham (The Transporter) with Jet Li (Romeo Must Die). Answer - two stars! Read

Mr Woodcock

JOHN Farley (Seann William Scott) is devastated when his mother Beverly (Susan Sarandon) announces her engagement to Mr Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton). Read

The Brave One

DON'T mess with Jodie Foster! That's the message from her new vigilante movie which turns Charles Bronson's Death Wish into, er, Death Chick. Read

Death Proof

LEGENDARY cult film director Quentin Tarantino is back - and how! Read

Clubland

IMAGINE a cross between Little Voice and Abigail's Party set in Australia. The result might be Abigail's Barby, but will any Brits want to join in? Read

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

WHEN New York's finest firemen stood up to be counted on 9/11 six years ago, they could never have imagined being reduced to this. Read

A Mighty Heart

FRESH from making little impression in US cinemas, Angelina Jolie stars in this post 9/11 drama about a Wall Street Journal reporter who is kidnapped in Pakistan. Read

3:10 To Yuma

RARELY will you ever see film-making problems appear quite so obviously as in this cowboy remake. Read

Superbad

ALMOST exactly eight years after American Pie stormed Britain, along comes the 21st century's nearest equivalent yet. Read

In The Hands Of God

DON'T ask me how, but this uneven documentary about five ball jugglers keen to meet Diego Maradona is somehow getting a wider release than recent movies like Waitress, Two Days in Paris and the excellent Hallam Foe. Read

Disturbia

THIS thriller sounds as if it's blended suburbia with 'Insania', the annoyingly-stupid word associated with Petre Andre. Read

Shoot 'Em Up

IN THIS outlandishly violent fantasy, Coventry-born actor Clive Owen plays a carrot-chewing hitman who's trying to improve his eyesight. Read

The Serpent

AFTER District 13, Tell No One and 36 I've been developing an increasingly spot for French thrillers. Read

Atonement

AFTER winning four Oscar nominations for remaking Pride & Prejudice in 2005, young British director Joe Wright is back in period harness with Keira Knightley. Read